SDR 105/2013 26 June 2013

Staff at Institutions in , 2011/12

This Statistical First Release provides information on the number of staff full time equivalents (FTEs) directly employed by Further Education (FE) institutions at any time during the academic year 2011/12. The data used in this release were collected from the institutions by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) via the Finance Record, as for 2009/10 and 2010/11. Previous releases were sourced by the Staff Individualised Record (SIR); see notes for further detail.

Summary: • During 2011/12, staff numbers, directly employed by FE institutions in Wales, amounted to 8,775 full time equivalents (FTEs). • The overall number of staff FTEs, directly employed by FE institutions in Wales, fell slightly by 0.4 per cent between 2010/11 and 2011/12. The 2011/12 total is the second lowest (after 2009/10) since a peak in staff FTE numbers in 2005/06. • Year on year changes in staff FTE numbers varied across FE institutions, with 10 institutions experiencing a decrease in staff numbers relative to 2010/11.

Chart 1: Full-time equivalent staff numbers, by FE institution, 2011/12 (a)

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Source: 2011/12 Finance Record

(a) which merged before August 2012 are not illustrated as separate sites but are included in the figures of the new merged bodies. (Table 1 footnotes provide details of mergers.)

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Staff FTEs at FE institutions • Chart 1 and Table 1 show the distribution of staff FTEs across FE institutions by year. • During 2011/12, staff numbers amounted to 8,775 full-time equivalents (FTEs), a decrease of 0.4 per cent, compared with 2010/11. • The number of staff at individual institutions varied widely, from around 10 FTEs in YMCA, to 1,420 FTEs at Grŵp Llandrillo Menai (following the merger of Cymru and ).

Table 1: Full-time equivalent staff numbers, by institution, 2004/05 to 2011/12 (a)

Institution 2004/05 (b) 2005/06 (b) 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12

Barry College (g) 300 310 315 325 330 330 335 . 630 635 585 570 580 575 595 605 (g) ...... 800 135 140 135 140 125 125 125 130 (c)(e) 405 415 425 455 460 585 675 665 (g) 410 430 465 470 445 445 470 . College (f) 295 320 325 315 305 315 . . Gower College (f) ...... 825 815 970 970 970 1,005 1,045 950 925 955 Coleg /WEA (North) 95 95 100 95 100 100 125 120 Coleg Llandrillo (d)(h) 580 615 640 640 660 810 970 . Grŵp Llandrillo Menai (h) ...... 1,420 Coleg Llysfasi (e) 125 125 135 130 115 110 . . Coleg Meirion Dwyfor (d) 205 205 215 215 210 . . . Coleg Menai (h) 440 375 375 380 385 385 460 . 585 540 505 450 410 420 440 420 College 550 555 555 565 575 585 665 620 440 460 440 390 390 380 395 405 280 280 270 270 265 270 250 240 Saint David's Catholic College 100 100 110 115 110 120 110 100 Coleg Sir Gâr 575 590 590 575 560 550 535 530 Swansea College (f) 645 680 675 635 590 540 . . WEA (South) 95 100 105 95 65 60 65 85 Welsh College of Horticulture (c) 190 195 180 180 180 . . . Yale College Wrexham 425 485 490 500 465 465 450 465 YMCA 20 25 15 10 15 15 10 10 415 425 415 440 430 390 390 400

Total 8,910 9,080 9,035 8,955 8,805 8,530 8,810 8,775 Source: Finance Record (a) Figures are rounded to the nearest 5 and there may be slight discrepancies between the sums of constituent items and the independently rounded totals. (b) For comparability, figures for 2004/05 and 2005/06 do not include data for , for which data have not been collected from 2006/07 onwards, following its merger with the in 2006. (c) The Welsh College of Horticulture merged into Deeside College in August 2009. (d) Coleg Llandrillo and Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor combined to form Coleg Llandrillo Cymru in April 2010. (e) Coleg Llysfasi merged into Deeside College in August 2010. (f) Swansea College and combined to form in August 2010. (g) and Coleg Glan Hafren merged to form Cardiff and Vale College in August 2011. (h) Coleg Llandrillo Cymru and Coleg Menai combined to form Grŵp Llandrillo Menai in April 2012.

Changes in staff FTE numbers at FE institutions • The staff FTE total remains lower than at its peak in 2005/06. Following a decline in numbers between 2005/06 and 2009/10, the overall number of staff FTEs directly employed by FE institutions rose between 2009/10 and 2010/11 and then fell slightly by 0.4 per cent. (Table 1). • Ten FE institutions (including two new institutions formed from mergers, relative to the totals of their constituents the previous year) had decreases in staff numbers and 8 had increases. For colleges, the changes ranged from a 9 per cent decrease at St David’s Catholic College to a 5.5 per cent increase at Coleg Ceredigion, though there were larger percentage increases at the two non- college FE institutions (YMCA and WEA South). The decrease of 7 per cent at Neath Port Talbot College followed an increase between 2009/10 and 2010/11 (for reasons given in the previous edition of this release). • The FTEs of the two FE institutions (Grŵp Llandrillo Menai and Cardiff and Vale College) which have most recently formed were in each case very close to the sums for their constituent colleges the previous year, with a decrease of around 1 per cent in each case.

Staff FTEs by pay expenditure category • Table 2 shows staff numbers by pay expenditure categories. • The ‘Teaching and learning departments’ category continues to have the largest number of staff FTEs directly employed by FE institutions, amounting to 59.5 per cent of total FTEs, virtually unchanged since 2006/07 (though a little higher in 2004/05 at 62 per cent). • Administration and Central Services staff FTE numbers are virtually unchanged at 14.9 per cent of the total since 2004/05 (14.7 per cent) but with fluctuations in the intervening years.

Table 2: Staff FTE numbers by pay expenditure categories, 2004/05 to 2011/12 (a)(b)

Pay Expenditure Category Academic Year

2004/05 (c) 2005/06 (c) 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12

Teaching and Learning Departments 5,535 5,520 5,360 5,395 5,220 5,100 5,300 5,225 Teaching and Learning Support Services 635 805 925 875 970 955 980 975 Other Support Services 430 420 400 335 365 335 370 355 Administration and Central Services 1,305 1,330 1,280 1,320 1,345 1,235 1,210 1,305 General Education Expenditure 75 70 135 130 70 75 60 60 Premises 350 350 330 330 345 335 335 335 Research and Consultancy *52525***0 Other Incoming Generating Activities 345 355 365 345 300 315 370 335 Catering and Residence 205 190 190 170 165 160 170 165 Farm 30 30 30 30 20 15 20 25

Total 8,910 9,080 9,035 8,955 8,805 8,530 8,810 8,775 Source: Finance Record (a) A ‘*’ represents a number greater than 0, but less than 5. (b) Other figures are rounded to the nearest 5 and there may be slight discrepancies between the sums of constituent items and the independently rounded totals. (c) For comparability, figures for 2004/05 and 2005/06 do not include data for Merthyr Tydfil College, for which data have not been collected from 2006/07 onwards, following its merger with the University of Glamorgan in 2006.

Staff FTEs by pay expenditure category and institution • Table 3 shows staff numbers by institution and pay expenditure categories. • During 2011/12, the ‘Teaching and Learning Departments’ category accounted for 59.5 per cent of total staff FTEs directly employed by FE institutions, ranging from 72 per cent in Ystrad Mynach College to 46 per cent in Neath Port Talbot College. (See also YMCA below.)

Table 3: Staff FTE numbers by institution and pay expenditure categories, 2011/12 (a)(b)

Pay Expenditure Categories

Teaching and Teaching and Administration Learning Other Support FE Institution Learning and Central Other (c) Total Support Services Departments Services Services

Bridgend College 365 20 30 55 130 605 Cardiff and Vale College 540 80 55 70 50 800 Coleg Ceredigion 60 15 15 25 15 130 Deeside College 455 25 25 65 95 665 Gower College Swansea 565 20 35 75 115 815 Coleg Gwent 560 120 0 265 10 955 /WEA (North) 65 5 0 35 15 120 Grŵp Llandrillo Menai 765 330 60 190 80 1,420 Coleg Morgannwg 220 70 30 45 50 420 Neath Port Talbot College 285 110 30 75 120 620 Pembrokeshire College 290 25 15 50 30 405 Coleg Powys 140 20 15 35 25 240 Saint David's Catholic College 65 5 * 20 5 100 Coleg Sir Gâr 285 40 10 85 110 530 WEA (South) 60 10 * 15 * 85 Yale College Wrexham 215 45 15 160 30 465 YMCA * 0 0 10 * 10 Ystrad Mynach College 285 25 15 35 35 400

All FE Institutions 5,225 975 355 1,305 915 8,775 Source: 2011/12 Finance Record (a) A ‘*’ represents a number greater than 0, but less than 5. (b) Other figures are rounded to the nearest 5 and there may be slight discrepancies between the sums of constituent items and the independently rounded totals. (c) The ‘Other’ category includes ‘General Education Expenditure’, 'Premises', ‘Research and Consultancy’, 'Other Income Generating Activities', 'Catering and Residence' and ‘Farm’ pay expenditure categories.

• The ‘Administration and Central Services’ category was the second largest category, accounting for 15 per cent of total staff FTEs directly employed by FE institutions, ranging from 34 per cent at Yale College Wrexham (and see also YMCA below) to just under 9 per cent at Cardiff and Vale College. • The split between ‘teaching & learning departments’ and ‘teaching & learning support services’ reflects the different style of teaching in each college. In some instances, instructors and demonstrators may be included under ‘teaching & learning support services’. • At YMCA, ‘administration & central services’ forms a large proportion (73 per cent) and ‘Teaching and Learning Departments’ a low proportion (18 per cent) of total staff FTEs. As noted in the 2009/10 and 2010/11 releases, these high and low proportions respectively are a consequence of the relatively high levels of hourly paid contract staff at the institution. This release includes only direct teaching staff and therefore such contract staff do not appear in the tables.

Notes

1. Data source

This Statistical First Release provides information on the number of staff full time equivalents (FTEs) directly employed by Further Education (FE) institutions at any time during the academic year 2011/12. The data used in this release are collected from the institutions by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) via the Finance Record as was also the case in 2010/11 and 2009/10. Earlier releases were sourced from the Staff Individualised Record (SIR). However, the SIR collection was suspended after 2008/09 owing to a prioritisation of statistical activity at that time and in order to reduce the burden of two separate data collections by DfES, pending a review of data requirements in the topic area. This subject was included in the 2011 consultation on Education Statistics, with the summary of responses and a resultant action plan available at the link below: www.wales.gov.uk/consultations/statistics/education/

Also relevant are proposals (September 2012) to amend the requirements for registration of the education workforce in Wales: www.wales.gov.uk/consultations/education/regeducationworkforce/

The staff FTE data are used for monitoring and to inform strategy development. Furthermore, the data provide the official source of statistics on Post 16 staff FTEs in Wales.

The staff FTE data are collected as part of the Finance Record. The Finance Record is primarily a financial return supplied to the by FE institutions and comprises a replica of their financial statements.

Data for Merthyr Tydfil College have not been collected for 2006/07 onwards following its merger with the University of Glamorgan in 2006. Thus, for comparability, data for Merthyr Tydfil College have been excluded from years 2004/05 and 2005/06.

Where FE colleges have merged, the figures represent the position following the merger and constituent institutions are not identified separately from the academic year of the merger onwards. The constituent institutions are however shown separately in the years prior to the merger in Table 1 where footnotes give details of each amalgamation.

2. Definitions

The academic years used throughout this release refer to the period 1st August to 31st July.

Staff FTE figures are as supplied directly from the Further Education Institutions via the Finance Record.

3. Rounding

All figures in this Statistical Release are rounded to the nearest 5 and therefore, there may be apparent slight differences between the sum of the constituent rows/columns and the totals.

A ‘.’ means that a data item is not applicable in a given table and ‘*’ represents a number greater than 0 but less than 5.

4. Key Quality Information

This section provides a summary of information on this output against five dimensions of quality: Relevance, Accuracy, Timeliness and Punctuality, Accessibility and Clarity, and Comparability.

4.1 Relevance

The measures set out in this publication are primarily used: • By the Welsh Government - DfES, to monitor the staff numbers in FE Institutions. • By education providers themselves, as a management tool to monitor staff levels. • Unions and other representative bodies of education providers.

The data are also used both within and outside the Welsh Government to monitor staff FTE trends. Some of the key users are:

• Ministers and the Members Research Service in the National Assembly for Wales; • Officials in the Welsh Government; • Other government departments; • Students, researchers, and academics; • Individual citizens, private companies, and the media.

The statistics are used in a variety of ways. Some examples of these are:

• General background and research; • Inclusion in reports and briefings; • Advice to Ministers; • To inform and evaluate the education policy-making process in Wales.

4.2 Accuracy

Previous releases were sourced from the Staff Individualised Record (SIR). However, as this collection has been suspended, SIR figures for the years 2009/10 to 2011/12 are not available.

For each staff contract, the SIR collected the contracted hours expressed as a proportion of the hours of a notional full-time member of staff. The full time equivalent (FTE) of the member of staff was calculated as the sum of these proportions of full-time hours over his or her contracts.

The 2009/10 to 2011/12 versions of the ‘Staff at Further Education Institutions in Wales’ replace the SIR- derived FTE trends back to 2004/05 with FTEs sourced directly from FE institutions through the Finance Record collection.

Data Source Academic Year

2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 Staff Individualised Record 9,160 8,960 9,260 9,185 9,065 ... Finance Record 8,910 9,080 9,035 8,955 8,805 8,530 8,810 8,775

Finance Record as % of SIR 97 101 98 98 97 ...

(a) Figures are rounded to the nearest 5 and there may be slight discrepancies between the sums of constituent items and the independently rounded totals. (b) Data for 2004/05 and 2005/06 does not include figures for Merthyr Tydfil College, as data have not been collected for 2006/07 onwards, following its merger with the University of Glamorgan in 2006.

The table above compares FTE counts from both data sources. It shows that for most years (though not 2005/06) the Staff Individualised Record gave a figure around 150-250 higher than the Finance Record and followed a similar trend.

4.3 Timeliness and Punctuality

Statistics on a given academic year are drawn from the Finance Record, following the end of the academic year. However one institution did not finalise its staff FTE figures until the end of May 2013. The previous two editions of the release using the current source were published in July of their respective years. The publication of this year’s release has been brought forward to June.

4.4 Accessibility and Clarity

This statistical release is pre-announced and then published on the Statistics section of the Welsh Government website.

4.5 Comparability

Data on Further Education staff (and students) from 1995/96 to 2002/03 were made available through the ELWa/HEFCW annual volume ‘Higher Education, Further Education and Training Statistics in Wales’. Commencing with 2003/04, this has been replaced by the current series of the ‘Further Education, Work-based learning and Community Learning in Wales Statistics’ annual volume which excludes information on staff numbers. The latest version of the publication, covering the years to 2010/11, was released in September 2012.

Data on Further Education staff for the years 2003/04 through to 2008/09 were made available through the Statistical First Releases SDR 101/2005, SDR 97/2006, SDR 138/2007, SDR 153/2008, SDR 121/2009 and SDR 130/2010 respectively. The first two FE staff releases to be based on the Finance Record were SDR 122/2011 and SDR 115/2012 for 2009/10 and 2010/11 respectively.

Data for Merthyr Tydfil College have not been collected for 2006/07 onwards following its merger into the University of Glamorgan in 2006. Thus, for comparability, data for Merthyr Tydfil College have been excluded from years 2004/05 and 2005/06.

Examples of the use of data on Staff at further education institutions in Scotland and England can be found on the websites of the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) and the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) respectively:

Staffing Statistics for Further Education Colleges in Scotland: 2010-11 Funding Council

Further education and skills sector: Summary workforce diversity report 2011

However, due to differences in methodology and data collection, caution should be exercised in making direct comparisons with the figures contained within this release.

4.6 Further information

Further information is available from the statistics web site: www.wales.gov.uk/topics/statistics/theme/post16ed/further-educa/

More detailed data are available to download from the StatsWales website: www.statswales.wales.gov.uk